Today's News

History repeats itself in Anderson County.
The battles of Lawrenceburg and Dog Walk unfold for one weekend during the annual Civil War re-enactment, a piece of Anderson County’s past some re-enacters fear might otherwise be forgotten.
The two-phase skirmish of 1862 was captured on iPad and cell phone alike last Saturday, the cannons’ boom and rifle shots echoed in the crowd via digital gunshots from iGun apps.
Both presidents — Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis — gave speeches.

A Lawrenceburg man was killed when the vehicle he was driving hit another head on Friday night in Franklin County.
Mikey S. Ward, 32, was driving south on US 127 when his vehicle veered into the northbound lane and struck another vehicle, according to a report in the Frankfort State-Journal.
Ward was pronounced dead while being transported to a hospital, the paper reported.
Two victims in the other car were injured. One was in critical condition. The other was in stable condition.

The Anderson County historical society hosted a bourbon and wine tasting fundraiser on the front lawn of Dowling Hall Sept. 24.
Attendees had the opportunity to tour the T. B. Ripy House, the only official historic landmark designated by the historic district in Lawrenceburg.
All proceeds of the event were to go to the historical society, according to organizers.

Salvisa native John M. Johnson received the William B. Garner National Boating Safety Leadership Award earlier this month in Milwaukee, according to a news release from the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA).
He received the award “in recognition of his ongoing efforts to steer the national nonprofit organization,” the news release said.

2011 ACHS graduate and current Transylvania University student Rebecca Radcliffe has garnered one more award from her high school career: national publication.
Rebecca’s poem entitled “Juntos” (“Together”), written last year for a poetry slam in AP Spanish class, was chosen for inclusion in the spring edition of Albricias, the quarterly magazine of the Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica, formerly the National Spanish Honor Society.